RIKEN SPring-8 Center Safety Design Group
Group Director: Shunji Goto (D.Eng.)
Research Summary

The group evaluates radiation safety and radiation shield performance by analyzing the measured data. The group also carries out R&D on beam loss monitors with high functionality and R&D on the performance improvement of the radiation monitors.
Research Subjects
- Research of radiation physics and behaviors for XFEL accelerators
- Research of radiation shielding and protection for XFEL accelerators
- Radiation safety design for advanced XFEL facility
- Research and developments for radiation monitors including electron beam loss and beam halo monitors of advanced XFEL accelerators.
Selected Publications
- 1.Yoshihiro Asano, Toshiro Itoga, and Xavier Marechal:
"Radiation Shielding aspects of the SCSS prototype XFEL facility."
Nuclear Technology Vol.168 387-390 (2009) - 2.Yoshihiro Asano, Teruhiko Bizen, and Xavier Marechal:
"Analyses of the factors for demagnetization of permanent magnet caused by high energy electron irradiation."
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation Vol. 16 p317-324 (2009) - 3.X.-M.Marechal, T.Itoga, Y.Asano:
"Fiber Beam loss Monitor For the SPring-8 X-FEL;Test Operation at the SPring-8 250MeV Compact SASE Source."
International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'10) Kyoto (2010) - 4.H.Aoyagi, T.Itoga, N.Nariyama, T.Bizen, T.Tanaka, H.Kitamura, and Y.Asano:
"Measurement of Electron Beam halo with Diamond Detector."
Proc. of the 24th workshop on Radiation Detectors and Their Uses. p73-81, KEK proceedings2010-10 - 5.Y.Asano:
"Application of Heavy Concretes to the Shield Materials of Synchrotron Radiation beamlines."
Radiation Measurements 46 p546-550 (2011) - 6.T. Itoga, Y.Asano, and Y.Tanimura:
"Response Function of a Superheated Drop Neutron Monitor with Lead Shell in the thermal to 400MeV Energy Range."
Radiation Protection Dosimetry ncr120 (2011) - 7.Yoshihiro Asano:
"Characteristics of radiation safety for Synchrotron Radiation and X-ray Free Electron Laser facilities."
Radiation Protection Dosimetry ncr131 (2011) - 8.X.M.Mareshal, Y.Asano, T.Itoga:
"Design, development, and operation of a fiber-based Cherenkov beam loss monitor at the Spring-8 Angstrom Compact Free Electron Laser"
Nuclear Instruments & Methods A673 (2012) - 9.H.Aoyagi, Y.Asano,T.Itoga, N.Nariyama, T.Bizen, T.Tanaka,, H.Kitamura:
"Pulse-mode Measurement of Electron Beam halo using Diamond -based detector"
Physical Review ST Accelerators & Beams 15 (2012) - 10.Yoshihiro Asano:
"Radiation Ssafety"
Free electron Laser Chapter 10, Intech Open publisher www.intechweb.org (2012)
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Shunji Goto
- Group Director
Contact Information
1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho
Sayo-gun, Hyogo
679-5148 Japan